[Samba] Samba-tool OU create

[Rowland Penny]

On 23/04/14 17:57, Stuart Naylor wrote:
> Brilliant, Rowland,
>
> OU's as the name, I do use to organise various profiles. To be honest OU's are rather handy as a higher level abstract of security groups.
>
> My aim is heterogeneous networks and apart from M$ registry hacks such as group policies I am still thinking the OU is a working demographic for want of a better word.
>
> Last night my neighbours threw water and me and shouted at me to stop barking! So it will be of no shock that I intend to try and use RFC2307 with AD and mixed desktop
> environments.

Stuart, I know that you are probably a bit excited that your football 
team is going up (again) but I cannot recommend barking at anybody ;-)

>
> My rough botch is to have linux /home scripts run at logon that are distributed by OU currently they will be very much out numbered by M$.
> They can run automatic as sudo or root as part of the startup applications and the registry is very much an M$ idea, the OU however is pretty useful which ever.

The OU definitely has a place in AD and yes, samba-tool should be able 
to create them directly rather than just as part of creating a new user 
or group, but that is beyond me, so anybody else up for it ??

Rowland

> Stuart
>
>   
>   
> -----Original message-----
>> From:Rowland Penny <rowlandpenny at googlemail.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday 22nd April 2014 21:15
>> To: samba at lists.samba.org
>> Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba-tool OU create
>>
>> On 22/04/14 21:08, Stuart Naylor wrote:
>>> I don't really think that is an argument. The whole reason we had a European monopoly commission was to provide alternative to Microsoft.
>>>
>>> Thats why I am wondering when samba-tool has all the other methods I am confused as to why OU's got left out of the process.
>>>
>>> I plan on using Samba as a migration path to Linux desktops where I have an eye on the future where the device will be more prevalent.
>>>
>>> So at the moment yeah I could use RSAT but that might not always be convenient.
>>>
>>> Stuart
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original message-----
>>> From: Chan Min Wai<dcmwai at gmail.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday 22nd April 2014 20:58
>>> To: Stuart Naylor <stuartiannaylor at thursbygarden.org>
>>> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba-tool OU create
>>>
>>> Dear Stuart,
>>>
>>> I dont see the reason why not to use RSAT...
>>>
>>> Since it is already there and samba support it...
>>>
>>> Why do we need to do something redundant?
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 3:50 AM, Stuart Naylor <stuartiannaylor at thursbygarden.org <mailto:stuartiannaylor at thursbygarden.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Sort of half asked this before and didnt really get a reply.
>>>
>>> The ability to create, delete and list OUs would seem to be a fundamental but for some reason is missing.
>>>
>>> Could anyone supply any details if its planned or are there alternative methods to create without the use of RSAT?
>>>
>>> Stuart
>>>
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>> Hi Stuart, The thing is, you do not create OU's very often and it is
>> usually when creating new users or groups and in this case, samba-tool
>> will create the OU whilst creating the new user or group (if the OU does
>> not already exist), if you need to create a OU for something else, then
>> create an LDIF, just like LDAP and then add it with ldbmodify.
>>
>> Rowland
>>
>>